Three left-wing nonprofits spent months resisting congressional requests for financial records.
Now the requests have become subpoenas.
The House Ways and Means Committee has ordered The People’s Forum, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental to produce documents in an investigation of foreign-linked funding inside the tax-exempt sector.
The man at the center of the money trail is Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech mogul who lives in Shanghai.
The House Ways and Means Committee says it first sought records from the organizations in 2025 and early 2026 while examining whether federal tax law does enough to expose foreign influence in American nonprofits.
The People’s Forum received its first request in September 2025. BreakThrough News and Tricontinental received theirs in February 2026.
After months of correspondence, the committee narrowed its requests on May 4 and gave the groups another opportunity to comply voluntarily. The revised demands focused on financial relationships, foreign entities and fiscal sponsorship, yet the committee says none of the three produced a single responsive document.
Chairman Jason Smith then invoked compulsory process, arguing that the unanswered requests prevented Congress from evaluating gaps in the laws governing tax-exempt organizations and foreign-linked money.
The committee says compulsory process became necessary only after the narrower request failed to move the dispute.
The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenas demand records involving foreign-linked funding, fiscal sponsorship arrangements and financial relationships with Singham or other foreign principals.
Investigators also want contracts involving foreign people or entities, communications about the groups’ finances and operations, foreign donations above $5,000 and grants sent overseas. The groups must show both money coming in and funds transmitted onward.
The demands cover any projects for which the groups provided fiduciary oversight, financial management or administrative services while receiving or transmitting funds tied to foreign nationals or foreign entities.
Each organization must also identify relevant fiscal sponsorship agreements and communications with Singham or other foreign principals. The subpoena packet sets an August 7 deadline for production.
The demands cover documents sufficient to trace which projects received funds, who controlled them and where foreign-linked money was ultimately sent.
That is a very different inquiry from asking what these organizations believe.
Congress writes the tax laws that give qualifying nonprofits special treatment. The committee wants to know whether those rules are being used to conceal where foreign-linked money originates before it reaches organizations operating in the United States.
Then there is the amount of money involved.
Fox News reported that more than $39 million flowed from Singham-linked entities to the three subpoenaed organizations.
Its investigation traced approximately $22.44 million to The People’s Forum, $16.76 million to Tricontinental and $1.098 million to Breakthrough BT Media Inc., a parent connected to BreakThrough News.
The committee cited Fox’s reporting while explaining its demands. Its letters say the reporting raised questions about whether intermediaries concealed the original source of contributions before the money reached recipient organizations operating in the American tax-exempt sector.
Fox also mapped $278 million from Singham-linked funding vehicles to six core American nonprofits and identified 223 transactions totaling $591 million as money moved through successive layers of a global network.
The reporting describes donor-advised funds and now-defunct shell companies as key channels through which money passed before reaching recipient groups.
Those broader figures are not the amount covered by the three subpoenas. They provide the context for why investigators are demanding records from these particular organizations.
Fox reported that Singham sold his software company, ThoughtWorks, for an estimated $785 million in 2017. He has since financed a sprawling international network of activist groups, research organizations and media operations.
The committee describes Singham as having ties to the Chinese Communist Party and says he has business relationships with people and companies linked to the CCP.
It also alleges that money moved through shell companies and donor-advised funds before reaching the nonprofits now under subpoena.
Those layers are central to the investigation because they can obscure an original donor from public view.
Smith says public reporting has traced hundreds of millions of dollars from Singham through such structures. The committee is trying to determine whether America’s charitable rules have been exploited to advance a foreign influence operation.
The organizations reject that accusation.
Lawyers for the groups have argued that the committee lacks a clear legislative purpose and that its demands threaten First Amendment and press freedoms.
The People’s Forum compared the investigation to a 1950s congressional witch hunt, while BreakThrough News invoked protections for the press.
The committee’s answer is straightforward: it says the investigation concerns financial arrangements and organizational structure, not anyone’s political opinions or published reporting.
That distinction will now be tested against actual records instead of dueling press statements.
A subpoena is not a criminal conviction, and no charges have been announced against the three organizations or Singham in connection with this congressional investigation.
Fox has separately reported that a federal grand jury is examining possible financial crimes involving Singham’s wider network. That reported investigation has also produced no announced charges.
The congressional case is narrower and easier to understand.
Tax-exempt organizations received tens of millions of dollars through a network the committee says was connected to a Shanghai-based financier with CCP ties. Congress asked for records, narrowed the requests and says it received nothing responsive.
The deadline for compliance is August 7.
By then, the public should learn whether the groups keep fighting disclosure, produce the records or ask a court to block the subpoenas.
For months, this was a voluntary records request that could be answered with letters and objections.
That stage is over. Chairman Smith has put the organizations under compulsory process, and the next chapter will be written by the documents they were ordered to produce.
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